Immediately, one thinks of the radical feminist movement in association with abortion, egalitarianism and man-bashing in its most distorted and perverse sense. For we see, within this cry of victimhood, an assertion that women should properly have advantages never before heard, or even presumptuously assumed, by any human individual.
Most prominently is the cry for blameless, guiltless sexual promiscuity by demanding (and getting) free contraception and abortions from the government; for they want the same freedom as men to be promiscuous without guilt or blame. Their diabolical claim that every woman has a right to end her pregnancy by killing an unborn child so that they may not be inconvenienced by motherhood is, at least in the moral realm, the epitome of self-indulgence and the most fundamental attack on their own feminine nature. For they are teaching and being taught to take the yoke of their feminine nature off their back. Congratulations, for you have remade women into a bizarre creature that is neither male nor female but a concoction of both natures. There is nothing feminine left in Feminism and they have become undesirable to men just as men have become the target of their hatred and wrath. And many men who have heeded their example have become more effete (their manly traits replaced by the natural traits of women).
Why then, do we wonder why divorce is rampant, marriages are few and children unimportant to gaining happiness in this life? For men and women have been taught to discard the central joy of the married state: the formation of a nuclear family . . . mother, father, children. It is far more important that women have high paying jobs, that they do not cede the headship of the family to the man and that children only make women less than men by being obliged to (a conceived) servitude to one’s husband and child. Role reversals are a symptom of the movement worth noting.
Masculine and Feminine traits were once regarded quite rightly as complimentary traits inherent in each of the sexes.
Males were more aggressive, more competitive in physical play and sports, more likely to be disruptive and outspoken in social settings, and generally, following their natural trait to be the ‘more active’ of the sexes; traits which were suitable to certain tasks, especially roles which called for risk and perhaps self-sacrifice for God, family and country.
Women were naturally more passive, more controlled and did not seek to compete or destroy their opponents in play or role playing. They were less likely to be disruptive in social situations and their positive traits balanced the family in a way that complimented both spouses. Men, and their more brutish traits were tamed, as it were by love of the ‘gentler’ sex and the women were given courage from their spouses who actively fought against the trials in life while the men were more equipped (after marriage) to find ways to negotiate settlements rather than simply let might make right as their only answer to a conflict.
While the Radical Feminists divested themselves of their God-given nature they have inadvertently stripped themselves of that which is fundamentally attractive to men; their femininity. The same can be said of the men who were discouraged to act out as boys growing up or drugged in order to curtail their aggressiveness. The result is that men now produce less testosterone than men of the same age some 50 years ago. See the following:
Men have even gone so far as to emulate the natural biological trait of women by shaving their body hair while women have adopted more and more aggressive and masculine traits, tattooing and piercing their bodies and by adopting coarse language, often referred to as ‘locker room’ talk. In many marriages, destined to fail, the marriage is a competition between the wife and husband and not a manifestation of the ’two becoming one’ which balanced the family in a way that brought harmony to the family and especially provided positive role models for their children of both sexes . . . if they have children at all; for it is common these days for married couples to forego children as a desired component of their marriage.
What we are likely to see is that men are expected to meld the masculine and feminine traits within their own nature just as the feminists do. So in some sense men and women have expected to exhibit the same traits as one another; egalitarianism which has crossed the bounds of nature itself and is purely some rational social experiment to achieve parity of the sexes. It does not work because men and women are biologically different with traits which are naturally different due to their sex. In its most fundamental way it is the attraction of opposites which is being compromised and therefore why marry someone who is essentially a mirror image of yourself? I believe that the rise in homosexuality and its acceptance by the world is largely due to the fact that men and women have reached a point where they almost have as much in common with one another as men and men and women and women. It is a perverse reversal in nature and it can only make the individuals more psychologically confused and psychotic by repressing their natural, God given differences in the natural realm of things. They are operating essentially outside of nature.
It was and is being accomplished by more exposure to what was once repulsive to either sex to the point where they have become conditioned to lose their natural “eww factor” associated with such perversity. It is bolstered by politicians, movies, books and the media in such a way that many men and women have lost their way and left in confusion . . . which often leads to failure, drug use and in the extreme, suicide at an unprecedented rate.
Another almost imperceptible aspect of radical feminism is that it is only one more expression of the classical sin of Liberalism; where its twin ruling principles are ‘private judgment’ and ‘liberty of conscience’ which is centered on a generalized rejection of God and a supernaturally instilled order of not only the sexes but of the universe which governs society and the family. More on that here:
https://catholicinsight.com/is-liberalism-a-sin/
How to fight this social experiment of Liberalism is a difficulty that we have not been able to get our arms around. I would suggest that God and morality must be reintroduced in the classroom, sex education should be eliminated as a means to indoctrinate our children into perverse sexual experiences, and the reinstitution of corporal punishment; both in schools and within our families. When I grew up corporal punishment in school was needed at times and few children were ‘abused’ by this practice . . . in fact I find that more children are abused today in physical, moral and spiritual ways than anything that ever happened during my school days. Courses in logic should be taught throughout our childhood both in school and without. What passes for rational thought these days is about as nonsensical as those who think they can “pick up a turd by the clean end” as the old saying goes. An upside down world is something that we have not seen to this extent and to once again teach that white is white, black is black and good is good and bad is bad is today revolutionary thought. Hopefully, with our societal implosion, some of our ill-thought practices will be swept aside in the dumpster where they belong. And lastly, we need to quit drugging our kids simply for being who they are and lose this distorted view of egalitarianism of the sexes (especially equality of outcomes). Both men and women are now far more likely to harbor anxiety and depression and its time to get ourselves in tune with what God instilled within our separate natures. Then perhaps marriages will last and children will have two biological parents and our children will quit killing themselves.
What are your thoughts?
I liked this post. I spend a certain amount of time watching videos by Jordan Peterson and others and reading articles in various publications about problems in the workplace created by the extremes. There is an awful economic aspect to this as well: there are many cases of women who would actual like to fill a traditional role but feel unable to because two incomes are needed to pay the mortgage etc. I cannot speak to the American situation, but it is true in Britain that we have becomes slaves of our economics as well as slaves of our sinful desires.
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The link to the Liberalism Article speaks to that a bit as well, Nicholas. Yes, my wife and I were just starting out with a family when the Radical Feminism revolt began and all of a sudden the pay scale for men dropped and it almost made it imperative that both the wife and husband worked. We fought that fight with the world and we got through it . . . though I am sure it is harder to do now. It was important for both of us that our children had a mom at home and that we didn’t want strangers raising our children in daycare.
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Completely agree. At the risk of getting in trouble, I do think that women entering the workforce in a number of sectors was a contributing factor to this economic problem. I expect I’ll get a lot of abuse for that comment though.
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I think you are solid ground whether or not you get abused for speaking the truth. The numbers don’t lie . . . and the numbers support your comment.
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I fear though that we won’t be able to persuade people to return to traditional lifestyles. I’m not a great believer in government helping out here, but if the government were to eliminate corporate tax it would make it easier for businesses to foster a different world.
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I doubt that will ever happen though as our governments have spend more money than they have to run these experiments with society and the cost of all these ‘social services’ (offered as bribes for votes) has bankrupted us. It would be like hoping that the Government would stop taxing money which was already taxed when it was earned. It won’t happen and we are still going further in debt even with their theft from hard working folks.
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Most of the feminists I know are really crabby women. The Pill turns them into nasty overnight. Its a shame so many lives are wasted. I often wonder why some them who seem so smart can fall for such dismal ideologies as their “liberation” has given them. In the long run, they look really stupid to me. Nuff said. God bless. Ginnyfree.
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There’s a vast and widening chasm between the experience of people lucky enough to have enjoyed a stable family life in their upbringing, and that of those (a majority among the young) who have not.
Traditional family values only make sense if you want what they are designed to foster, viz. stable family life, suitable for bringing up children. When your only memory of what marriage was like was your father and mother flying off the handle at one another, followed by an acrimonious divorce and the breakdown of one of the most fundamental relationships you will ever have (parent / children), who is likely to find that appealling? Given the disparity in outcomes between men and women, what MAN in particular would ever want that?
Fornication divorces sex from marriage. Contraception serves fornication by divorcing sex from procreation. This has a side-effect of removing conceptual barriers to perversion, which in its turn obscures traditional models of masculinity and femininity as it becomes normalised.
As traditional models and norms are eroded, so the advantages of marriage become more and more overshadowed by the disadvantages, until marriage becomes a parody. Divorce cuts spouse from spouse and children from their parents, which directly impacts children’s mental health and can adversely affect normal sexual development by depriving the child of a role model.
Abortion makes any healthy parent-child relationship impossible, by treating offspring as disposable, rather than persons with human dignity in their right.
The best thing lay people can do is pray and, where circumstances allow, raise as many happy and healthy children as possible.
We may not be able to persuade our enemies; but it should be easy to out-breed them.
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I couldn’t have said it any better, QVO. Good comment.
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How’s the world with you Scoop?
Leaving aside the commonplace that you and I are both at war with it.
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Just a general, cosmic, malaise over the situation which seems almost surreal at times. Other than that I am trying to conquer the hill of extraordinary ministers, communion in the hand standing and other abuses but alas, I think it will be a lost battle . . . they usually turn out that way. Other than that wife and family is doing reasonably well, QVO. How about with you? How’s your little guy getting on?
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Very well, thank you. We’re expecting a new arrival fairly soon, God willing.
Please don’t let it get to you. I nearly had a breakdown over the whole Sedevacantism question, and I felt similarly embattled over that.
The serenity to accept the things we cannot change is a pearl of great price. If we do not have peace of soul, it becomes very difficult to persevere in the faith; with peace of soul, it is easy.
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Wise words indeed, QVO and congratulations on you new expected arrival. Hope that you have another healthy baby and the mom is doing well.
I am old enough to let my priest know that it is up to him to desire the changes and that he is the priest and he is the one that is responsible for the running of his parish. Therefore I am not demanding on my own desire to see these changes but only informing him of information which might make it easier for him to make a choice and decision based on more information than he might possess at this point. To that end I put together a couple of pages for his reading . . . though I doubt he will read it all or read all the links though I always have hope that at some time he might become interested enough to do so. If you can suggest more entries to these pages, let me know as I would love to keep adding to them. This is what I have so far on my website: http://www.newsforcatholics.info/extraordinary-ministers-reception-hand-standing/
and
http://www.newsforcatholics.info/quotations-on-the-novus-ordo/
Its a start but there is so much more but it would be great to get any material that I need not look up and research and simply drop it in. If you have some things just pop it over to me and I will add them.
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I admire the pains you’re taking with this.
My general view on the NO liturgy is that it’s one of those things you can’t polish. A revival of authentic liturgy, driven by priests, will inevitably see the end of these abuses. I knew a well-meaning priest who tried a middle way, bringing the reverence of the old rite into the new; the whole thing still savoured in many ways of Protestantism.
I can’t see that anything will change until there is widespread “voting with the feet” of the laity.
I never attend NO mass, and so the only money of mine the Church gets in the collection plate goes through a priest who says the old Mass. No extraordinary ministers. No problem.
Trouble is, quite often it means more than an hour to mass – by road. No joke. And no community to speak of, either.
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I live even further away from a traditional Latin Mass. I agree entirely that the ultimate win will be to get the people back to the Latin Mass and drop the NO entirely. But before that can happen one has to start to inform parishes in bits and pieces that we lost the Offertory, we have all these abuses and we have stopped thinking with the Church . . . many even losing their belief in the Real Presence. Its a sad situation. The only way it could be done quickly is through a Pope and Vatican filled with Holy men . . . which seems like an oxymoron at this time.
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Do not lose hope. It will happen. Our Lady’s Immaculate heart will triumph; it is foretold.
All seems lost, but the good God is omnipotent.
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This brought to mind one of the saddest stories I’ve heard of the natural effects of the so-called liberation of women that the feminazis won for most of the women of my generation on a friend of a friend and her little son. She was a single mom and parent to one son. The daddy was absentee most of the time as the little boy was an “accident,” a “ooops” on a night of a little too much fun and he didn’t feel too good about marriage for an “ooops.” My friend refused to abort and this caused trouble in her immediate family. Backstory. She had him, but remained a single mom. He was five years old and smart as a whip. He was in a special school that was half kindergarten and half daycare as mom worked. One day he was in the bathroom and he was handling the Pill dispenser case that mom left out on the counter, while she finished putting her make up. He had the case in his chubby little hands, and innocently looked up to her and simply asked: “Mommy, did you want me?” He knew exactly what those PIlls were for and what they did: made sure no babies came. His innocent little mind knew the complete Truth about what they did and why mommy took them each morning while she did her hair and got ready for work while her little guy sometimes watched. She understood EXACTLY what he meant and what he knew and the Truth hit her right between the eyes that morning. She was stunned by the question and it went straight to her heart. The tears came. The Pill went in the trash can. And an explanation that she knew was lame was made to a son who brought the Light of the Son of Man to his mommies heart. It actually began her re-version. She became very outspoken in the Pro-Life Movement. A former feminized beauty with a sex life she thought all the gal’s at the office envied, especially the married ones who had no fun at all. Yeah. He little boy knew exactly what those Pills did – stopped the babies from coming. Now, if a five-year-old can get it, why don’t the grown ups? God bless. Ginnyfree.
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Q, if you have the time, I would love to see you write an article entitled, “Make Britain Great Again”. I miss your wit and use of sound philosophical analysis. All my love to R and S.
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Nicholas, I will give this careful consideration. I hope you are well.
Why not bowl up to see us in April? I’ll send details by email.
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